Example sentences of "[adj] have only [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True , material living standards have risen but this has only been granted either to increase the overall rate of exploitation of the workers or because the workers of the Third World are being exploited even more rapaciously to ‘ buy off ’ subordinate classes at home . |
| 2 | In Nucella , this has only been observed at the upper end of the scale . |
| 3 | So far , this has only been attempted in animals , using the technique of mucosal scraping . |
| 4 | This has only been accentuated in the course of social evolution . |
| 5 | Since the Second World War , this has only been used for storage . |
| 6 | In commerce the designation ivory has sometimes been extended to nuts of the Phytelephas palm of South America , but this has only been used for making things like buttons , draughtsmen and netsuke . |
| 7 | This mass migration to the inland has only been recorded three times in the past century , and scientists are tagging thousands of birds , you attempt to get a log of the pelican 's travels and try to understand what makes them leave their normally safe havens . |
| 8 | In her defence the artiste explained that this had only been caused by the persistent attention paid to her by mosquitoes that night . |
| 9 | Iraqi forces were debarred from using military aircraft , although it subsequently emerged that this had only been made explicit with regard to fixed-wing aircraft rather than helicopters . |
| 10 | The American critic W. Stephen Bush reflected on how the poor and lowly had only been tolerated in the theatre and all too often forced up into the gallery , but the movies had ‘ emancipated the gallery ’ and had ‘ wiped out for ever the odium and ridicule ’ that had always been shown towards its clientele . |
| 11 | The succession at the margin of the platform appears to be composed mainly of oolitic grainstones , although these have only been described so far from Poland ( Peryt et al. 1978 ) . |
| 12 | New thinking in rural development planning in general has only been taken up piecemeal by conservation planners and commentators in the international literature and they have been idealistic and exhortative in tone . |
| 13 | But one thing Rachel was certain of was that the revival of those memories had only intensified her dislike of her sister 's ex-fiancé , and when she arrived for work the following Monday morning and he was the first person she saw she found her resolve to have as little to do with him as possible had only been strengthened . |